Research News

Disaster Symbols Put UMBC on the Map

While some UMBC departments help train first-responders, the faculty, staff and students in the department of Geography & Environmental Systems(GES) recently helped make sure that emergency...

Posted: November 14, 2005, 12:00 PM

Finding the Face of Terror

FINDING THE FACE OF TERROR: Using Math to Help Track Madmen Q&A with Andrew Rukhin, Professor UMBC Department of Mathematics and Statistics The emerging field of biometrics technology...

Posted: November 14, 2005, 12:00 PM

Homeland Security Research

Welcome to the new online home for UMBC research. This section features multidisciplinary approaches to real-world problems and debuts with an area dominating scientific innovation and public...

Posted: November 14, 2005, 12:00 PM

Replacing Fido with Fiber Optics

Some homeland security first responders travel on four legs. Thanks to a four-year collaboration between UMBC chemistry and biochemistry professor Bradley Arnold and George Murray of The Johns...

Posted: November 14, 2005, 12:00 PM

UMBC Researchers in Nature This Month

Research by faculty and graduate students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) was published in the prestigious Nature family of scientific journals four times in October,...

Posted: November 14, 2005, 12:00 PM

Cutting-Edge Research at the Speed of Light

The science of light – photonics – is as ubiquitous as oxygen in today’s technology driven world. Go to the grocery store, make a phone call, listen to a CD or watch a movie on DVD and odds are...

Posted: November 7, 2005, 12:00 PM